Will lower taxes, smaller government and deregulation solve every problem we confront?

Our real tax rate is lower than it has been in over 60 years. Yet our problems, if anything, have grown larger. Our infrastructure is crumbling. Perhaps we just haven’t cut taxes and infrastructure spending enough yet. How low must taxes go before bridges repair themselves automagically, and pothole filled roads repave themselves. How many teachers do we need to lay off and children do we need to deny Headstart to before our education system shifts itself into high gear?

E. J. Dionne’s oped in The Washington Post looks at how the right wing today, while often pointing to Edmund Burke as one of their heroes, has lost sight of his message; and in doing so, lost sight of real solutions to the problems we face. Do you agree? If not, where is he wrong?